quad core

After going from the E5200 Dual Core to the Q9550 Quad Core windows freezes on startup. If I try to do startup repair it crashes there too. I get the black screen of death, no error message or anything. If I re-install the E5200 it works fine. I would like the get the Quad core working. It's...

Hey all , I have a problem with my computer as it won't sleep, my pc specs are Intel core 2 Quad Q8300 2.50Ghz and 4.00 GB RAM and operating a 64 bit system, any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lance

I just got a 25mb FIOS connection and everything is running great except when I boot up. It takes windows about 1 minute to find my network so I can connect to the internet (this also for some reason holds up my other startup programs, i.e. logitech setpoint for my G5). I have not had this issue...

Hello, I have random bsod problems. I checked memory with mem test and there is no problems. My PC is one year old, and his specifications are: OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit CPU Intel Core 2 Quad 8400 2.66 GHz (4 CPU's) Motherboard ASUS P5QD Turbo Memory 4GB (2X2048) Dual-Channel DDR3...

Hi My win 7 quad core PC suddenly started shutting down without warning yesterday. I thought this might be temperature related so downloaded a small utility to monitor fan speeds and CPU temps. I was amazed to see that when idling my intel CPU was up about 50C and when I gave the PC anything...

I have been having problems with not being able to start up with out repairing or getting a BSOD the last week or so...lets say 5 days. I have tried the system file check someone posted in these forums the other days and it said sys32 was 100%. Have als ochecked my NVIDEA drivers as well since...

Hey guys, I've been trying to fix this myself but with no luck. Maybe you can give me some tips? I think it is a hardware issue which I have little to no experience with. It all started when I decided to upgrade to Windows 7 x64 from my Vista x64. I had nothing of importance on the computer...

Hi, at the start of this month I changed the motherboard and graphics card. The change has caused my computer to BSOD since then and is becoming more and more frequent. I have updated various drivers as suggested by other posts but still the problem persists. The BSOD happens at random times...

According to a report over at Xbitlabs, AMD is working on several new Phenom II X6 CPUs including the new flagship Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition. Of course, we are still just talking about clock bumps as the flagship is still based on the 45nm Thuban die and is pretty much the same as it...

Hi, I have a Gateway lx6810 (desktop), right now I'm having a problem of BSOD when the pc is shutting down. Model: Gateway lx6810 Ram: 8gb CPU: Intel Core Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz Display: Nvidia GeForce GT 120 Im uploading my dump files to see if you can help me with this problem...

So for this entire month I have been getting BSOD errors and have fixed the software ones (I think) but now it gives me hardware errors. Attached is the dump files for this entire fiasco OS: Windows 7 home x64 Processor: Quad core Q6600 2.40 ghz RAM 4Gb video card Nvidea GeForce 8600GTS hard...

I have recently checked if my CPU heat sink was dusty so i took it out and i cleaned it. I also took out my CPU to look at it. After i put everything back in, I turned on my computer and went to the BIOS and it only detected 2 cores on my CPU. Would it be because i placed it incorrectly?

AMD's Quad-Core Chips Now More Affordable Advanced Micro Devices has lowered the prices on its desktop-class microprocessors. The decrease is less than intangible. Based on the new Link Removed - Invalid URL, which quotes prices for customers getting 1000+ central processing units (CPUs)...

Hi, Im kind of at my wits end here, ill explain. I have two screens, both Dell, one running natively at 1920x1200 (the primary one) and a second running in vertical at 1050x1680. I generally do most of my gaming on the Main one and keep the MSN/mail/Firefox stuff running on the second, and as...

My computer is an intel quad core 6600 with 4gb ram. Currently it has WinXP 32bit running. I have one hard drive which has two partitions (c and d). I've backed up all my stuff on to d and I wanted to install Win 7 64bit from scratch on the C partition. I stuck the Win 7 DVD (full, not upgrade)...

It appears that windows 7 had updates happening last night (8-12-2010) since when I woke up, I woke to a log in screen, and that normally means the computer was restarted. I logged in with no issues, but then I noticed that my network cards were red Xed out in the task bar, which is strange...

I did easy transfer (backing-up) on my 32bit Windows 7 onto an external HD. I would like to wipe it out and install the 64 bit Windows 7 which my Quad core is capable of and easy transfering my files etc. back. Is this possible? Thanks

Hello, Yesterday I installed Windows 7 on my brother's PC. He had been using Vista previously. Upon booting to the installer, the "Starting Windows" screen would appear with the animated windows logo. This screen took 20 minutes of waiting to get past, so for ages I thought it wasn't going to...

I'm looking for some guidance on an issue with my Windows 7 box. My system is crashing once a week or a few times a month. I can't exactly pinpoint why, as the logs only show the crash after. Logs indicate the following...

I have bought Packard Bell IXtreme X8211 (M3720). It has Quad CPU with 4Gig RAM. Very frequently it freezes for up to 30 seconds. I have notice in Resource Monitor that the Highest Active Time is 100% every time it freezes. The system has a WD EADS SCSI hard drive. It started this after...